CCNP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 268 384
Rank change year-on-year +56 +116 -30
Contract jobs citing CCNP 130 192 251
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 0.80% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.37% 3.22% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 122 172
10th Percentile £324 £350 £351
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% - +18.20%
75th Percentile £638 £569 £580
90th Percentile £669 £663 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £15.60 £18.50 £23.30
25th Percentile £16.69 £33.00 £26.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £50.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.00% +16.28% +85.26%
75th Percentile £21.63 £52.50 £60.92
90th Percentile £22.90 £72.50 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £60.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year -61.67% +32.74% +14.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

CCNP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,853 5,970 8,868
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.26% 25.01% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,484 4,036 6,300
10th Percentile £331 £380 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +3.58% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 247 231
10th Percentile £14.63 £19.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £23.66 £42.50 £38.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +44.76%
75th Percentile £66.88 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £83.99 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

CCNP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CCNP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP.

CCNP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CCNP over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

CCNP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP.

CCNP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
1 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.92%) AWS
2 5 (3.85%) Azure
3 3 (2.31%) GCP
4 2 (1.54%) Catchpoint
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.54%) OneDrive
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.77%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 69 (53.08%) Firewall
2 46 (35.38%) WAN
3 37 (28.46%) BGP
3 37 (28.46%) Cisco ASA
4 32 (24.62%) OSPF
5 31 (23.85%) SD-WAN
6 29 (22.31%) Network Security
6 29 (22.31%) VPN
7 27 (20.77%) MPLS
8 26 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 26 (20.00%) LAN
9 18 (13.85%) Cisco ISE
10 17 (13.08%) DNS
11 15 (11.54%) Wireless
12 14 (10.77%) IPsec
13 13 (10.00%) DHCP
13 13 (10.00%) EIGRP
14 12 (9.23%) SNMP
14 12 (9.23%) TCP/IP
15 11 (8.46%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (3.08%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (23.08%) Finance
2 19 (14.62%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.23%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.38%) Banking
6 4 (3.08%) Aeronautics
6 4 (3.08%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.31%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.77%) German Language
9 1 (0.77%) Legal
9 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (60.77%) Network Engineer
2 15 (11.54%) Senior
3 13 (10.00%) Architect
4 12 (9.23%) Cisco Engineer
4 12 (9.23%) Consultant
5 11 (8.46%) Network Consultant
6 10 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Network Architect
7 8 (6.15%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.62%) Firewall Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (4.62%) Senior Network Consultant
10 5 (3.85%) Network Security Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Security Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) WAN Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.85%) Jinja
2 3 (2.31%) EDI
2 3 (2.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.08%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.85%) Clustering
3 3 (2.31%) CCTV
3 3 (2.31%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.31%) SCADA
4 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.54%) IPTV
4 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.77%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.77%) IoT
5 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.77%) NHS
5 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.08%) Windows
2 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.54%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (12.31%) Change Management
3 15 (11.54%) Network Design
4 13 (10.00%) Low Latency
5 10 (7.69%) Investment Management
5 10 (7.69%) ITIL
5 10 (7.69%) Migration
6 9 (6.92%) High Availability
6 9 (6.92%) Incident Management
6 9 (6.92%) Network Virtualisation
7 8 (6.15%) Network Architecture
7 8 (6.15%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (5.38%) DevOps
8 7 (5.38%) ITSM
8 7 (5.38%) Network Management
8 7 (5.38%) Project Delivery
9 6 (4.62%) Computer Science
10 5 (3.85%) Decision-Making
10 5 (3.85%) Load Balancing
10 5 (3.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.38%) Python
2 5 (3.85%) Perl
2 5 (3.85%) Tcl
3 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 130 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (41.54%) CCNA
3 49 (37.69%) CCIE
4 28 (21.54%) Security Cleared
5 23 (17.69%) SC Cleared
6 16 (12.31%) JNCIA
7 8 (6.15%) CCSA
7 8 (6.15%) Degree
8 7 (5.38%) CCDP
8 7 (5.38%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.85%) CISSP
10 4 (3.08%) HND
10 4 (3.08%) JNCIP
10 4 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (2.31%) CCIE Data Center
11 3 (2.31%) JNCIS
11 3 (2.31%) MCSA
11 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.31%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.69%) SLA
2 3 (2.31%) QA
System Software
1 12 (9.23%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (9.23%) VMware NSX
2 7 (5.38%) Firmware
3 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (15.38%) Ansible
2 3 (2.31%) FortiGate
2 3 (2.31%) Kibana
3 2 (1.54%) Nessus
3 2 (1.54%) SCCM
3 2 (1.54%) Terraform
4 1 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 114 (87.69%) Cisco
2 52 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 32 (24.62%) F5
4 28 (21.54%) CheckPoint
5 25 (19.23%) Fortinet
6 21 (16.15%) Juniper
7 17 (13.08%) SolarWinds
8 15 (11.54%) Arista
9 13 (10.00%) VMware
10 9 (6.92%) Meraki
11 8 (6.15%) Microsoft
11 8 (6.15%) Nokia
11 8 (6.15%) Zscaler
12 7 (5.38%) Aruba
12 7 (5.38%) Riverbed
13 6 (4.62%) AlgoSec
13 6 (4.62%) Citrix
14 4 (3.08%) Ciena
14 4 (3.08%) IBM
14 4 (3.08%) Infoblox